The workspace is entirely configurable and provides users with functions to create, edit, redraft, approve, analyze and report on documents and the business information that is held within them.
Deal Manager is designed to integrate easily with other information and content management systems. It can be deployed in its own right as an independent application. Alternatively it can be used as an application design template within another host system.
Business Integrity has broad experience in integrating its products in this way. Projects successfully undertaken include all the leading document and content management systems, case management and workflow applications, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools and Customer Relationship Management systems.
DealManager is an entirely web-based interface to DealBuilder.Server to provide enhanced document creation and document metadata management.
DealManager's look-and-feel is controlled by a set of cascading style sheets, as well as easy-to-use Microsoft .NET web page controls.
DealManager presents a wrap-around web interface for communicating with DealBuilder.Server and offers pre- and post document creation functions to the user. DealManager communicates with the DealBuilder.Server through a standard COM interface. To offer a complete Microsoft .NET web application, DealManager bypasses the use of DealBuilder.Server's standard set of ASP pages and re-implements these using Microsoft .NET web forms applications.
DealManager is entirely written using Microsoft .NET web programming technology, and can be integrated to existing information systems using standard .NET methodology.
Custom extension of DealManager can be implemented using Microsoft .NET methodology, which means that any data transfer methods supported by Microsoft .NET framework can be considered. These include data retrieved from database or xml files.
The security model is based on the standard Microsoft .NET features and Windows integrated security.
Create, view, edit business or process specific projects, each of which can contain a cluster of metadata and associated documents Version control of the data used to create and update documents, mail-based routing.
DealManager uses the standard DealBuilder.Server for document generation, which supports the direct generation of RTF, HTML, XML and TEXT formats. An additional add-on component handles the generation of .PDFs.